Category Archives: Paper & Packaging

Rubicon Global Disrupts the Waste Stream through Entrepreneurism

By | Published: April 16, 2013

By Elizabeth Hill, Director of Corporate and Social Responsibility, Rubicon Global Why do we throw trash away? Because we have already extracted the value out of a product and we do not need what is left over. What remains is usually seen as dirty or useless. It goes into the can and out of our [...]

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Why Ingersoll Rand’s Collaboration with EDF Climate Corps Works

By | Published: January 22, 2013

By Scott Tew, Executive Director,  Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, Ingersoll Rand As we plan for our fourth summer of hosting Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps fellows, I’m reviewing the great strides we’ve made based on the work of the six EDF fellows Ingersoll Rand has hosted to date. Through Ingersoll Rand’s involvement [...]

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Walmart finds money in a shoebox

By | Bio | Published: January 30, 2012

Walmart’s The Green Room recently published a blog about shoeboxes. For a behemoth retailer like Walmart, one would think that worrying about shoeboxes isn’t high on its list of priorities. But this attention to detail is the kind of thing that makes environmental progress possible and Walmart effective. Scale In 2005, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) [...]

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Unpacking the Complexities of Packaging at Walmart's Sustainable Expo

By | Published: April 28, 2011

Week three on the job at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and I had the opportunity to attend Walmart & Sam’s Club 6th Annual Sustainable Packaging Exposition in Rogers, Arkansas.  The expo is part of Walmart’s efforts to reduce five percent of packaging in its supply chain by 2013 (based on a 2008 baseline).  It acts [...]

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Walmart's Zero Waste Program

By | Bio | Published: March 24, 2011

In 2005, Walmart’s then-CEO Lee Scott announced his goal to generate zero waste. Vonda Lockwood, now Walmart’s Director for Store Innovations and Sustainability, remembers thinking that the zero waste goal was really going to complicate someone’s life. Shortly thereafter, she realized the newly complicated life was her own, when she was handed the task of [...]

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Waste Not Want Not: Walmart explores closed-loop recycling

By | Published: February 15, 2011

By Daniel Upham, Writer, EDF Executive Office Operations One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and Walmart is starting to see the treasure potential of some of its own garbage. Walmart has been exploring closed-loop recycling, where trash goes in and new products come out, and one of its newer programs is literally for the [...]

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EDFix Future of Green Podcast Series: "Have You Ever Heard of Environmental Defense Fund?"

By | Bio | Published: February 4, 2011

20 Years of Business Partnership Lessons at EDF Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email Bob Langert, vice president of corporate social responsibility at McDonald’s, explained that it all started with a letter from Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to McDonald's president at the time, Ed Rensi, essentially [...]

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From Heresy to Dogma: How Uncommon Bedfellows Changed the Environmental Movement

By | Bio | Published: November 15, 2010

By Gwen Ruta, VP of Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund and Bob Langert, VP of Corporate Social Responsibility, McDonald's Corporation Twenty years ago this month, Corporate America experienced a paradigm shift. McDonald's announced that it would phase out its iconic Styrofoam clamshell containers, switching to paper products to reduce its environmental impact. While this was [...]

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Building on the Heritage of Partnership: I'm lovin' it

By | Bio | Published: October 28, 2010

By Koji Kitazume, 2010 EDF Climate Corps fellow at McDonald’s Corporation, Joint degree MBA/MEM candidate at The Fuqua School of Business and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Member of Net Impact On average, it serves 60 million customers a day through more than 32 thousand restaurants in nearly 120 countries around the world [...]

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What Do iPhones, Coca-Cola and SunChips Have in Common?

By | Bio | Published: October 7, 2010

The ruckus over Frito-Lay’s recent decision to pull some of the compostable bags it uses for SunChips snacks is missing the point.  The point is not whether compostable bags are too noisy – that was the complaint that precipitated the bag redesign – but whether they really are better for the environment.  And the answer [...]

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